# 20241119
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[On this day, my eighth wedding anniversary](https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/11/19/on-this-day-my-eighth-wedding-anniversary)
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Okay! Let's start here. :)
Which is to say,
* A (blue) = Known = observer's center of awareness
* B (pink/blue stripes) = Knowable
* C (pink) = Unknown
This 2x2 grid is suggestive of the way these regions interact, relative to the observer's point of view.
Let's talk about problems. 🤩
What is a problem?
Something painful, maybe? Something that grabs our attention unpleasantly? Something that you're unwilling to co-exist with in its current state of balance? Is a problem for someone else you're unaware of still a problem for you?
Let's define any balanced system as (XY). Perhaps these are the known/knowable parts of a [three-body linkage/engine](https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/17#three-body-linkages-engines). (XY) together are operating in balance. Either them by themselves is a "problem", i.e. a half in search of its other half, or an agent that's looking for its rhythm and is testing itself against any other agents it comes across. We'll call this a "problem", hehe.
Let's think about this from the observer's point of view.
The representation system I'm using below uses ABC (and in one spot B₁ and B₂, where we need to distinguish between the two B areas), referencing Known, Knowable, and Unknown zones using the same outlined 2x2 grid we saw a minute ago. I'm simplifying the graph a little bit, to reduce clutter, but I'm anchoring with blue and pink as visual cues for how knowledge states sit here.
The dot in the center of the lower-left (aka Known aka center of the observer's awareness) square indicates the observer itself. ("Ourselves"?)
Anyway, let's move through these. Numbering these 8 charts as lines of language, left to right descending:
1. CXY
1. X and Y are both hanging out in C, the Unknown
2. X and Y can see each other, which means they get to operate in their shared rhythm.
3. The observer is unaware of both X and Y.
4. There is no problem.
2. BXCY
1. X has advanced into B, the Knowable territory.
2. Y remains in C, the Unknown.
3. X and Y can see each other, which means they get to operate in their shared rhythm.
4. The observer can only see X.
3. BXY
1. Y has joined X in B, the Knowable territory.
2. X and Y can see each other, which means they get to operate in their shared rhythm.
3. The observer is aware of both X and Y.
4. There is no problem.
4. AXBY
1. X has moved into Known territory, which is the observer's center of awareness.
2. Y remains in B, the Knowable territory.
3. X and Y can see each other, which means they get to operate in their shared rhythm.
4. The observer has up-close knowledge of X, but does not have up-close knowledge of Y.
5. This is a problem if the observer doesn't trust that X (which it can see up close) and Y (which it can fuzzily see further back) can figure it out.
5. AXY
1. X and Y have both moved into Known territory, which is the observer's center of awareness.
2. X and Y can see each other, which means they get to operate in their shared rhythm.
3. The observer has up-close knowledge of both X and Y.
4. This is only a problem if the observer doesn't *like* XY, lol.
6. AXCY
1. Okay here we've jumped states a bit.
2. X is in Known territory, which is the observer's center of awareness.
3. Y remains in the Unknown.
4. For the first time in our exploration here, *X and Y cannot see each other*.
1. Now let's think about this for a second. Another way to define this scenario is that the observer is has fixed X in its awareness, *and has fixed the absence of Y in its awareness as well*.
5. If the observer is willing to hang out with miracles, they stand a chance at seeing X operate in tandem with an invisible Y. If not, the observer has a problem.
7. BXCY
1. We've seen this before, in diagram #2, but I've drawn it a second time here because the observer can conceive of *separate* zones of Unknown, zones which cannot directly interact without passing through the Unknown (aka without dissolving beyond definition as a part of their transition).
2. The idea here is that the observer has *shunted* X from B₁ to A and through to B₂, perhaps on its way back to C where it can rejoin Y beyond the observer's ability to observe. This is suggestive of a kind of respiration.
8. B₁XB₂Y AKA GOD HELP YOU
1. The observer sees X over in one Knowable zone, and Y over in *another, separate* Knowable zone.
2. The observer has a problem. 🤩 What will they do?
